The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-06-10

near Elkerly, Ind, recently, for outraging
twelve-year-old girl, after tying her to .
tree.
THB Iowa Temperance Alliance has issued
q circular to the clergymen Of the State
regardless Of denominationsl lines, an
nouncing that the alliance has consented to
be the medium for the collection Of funds
to aid the prosecution in the Paddock muir
der cases at Sioux City.
PRoF. WILLIAM 81. WOoLEY, Of Bethany
College, has been elected president of Hi
ram College, at Hiram, o.
THE molders in the Michigan and PENN
sular stove works at Detroit struck re-
Gently.
A SERIOUS earthquake swept over the
greater portion of Northern California and
Western Nevada between two and three
o'clock on the morning of the Sd.
The Latonis Oaks (CinclnnatD was won
on the Sd by Ed Corrigan's Unite.
THE soUTH.
Rich finds Of placer gold assaying from
e36 to $50 per ton are reported from Golden
City. Ark
WHILE towing raft down the Little
Kanawha the other day, near Petersburg,
w. Va, the boiler Of the tug boat Whaler
exploded, killing the engineer, Peter Wal
tiers, and fatally injuring jackson Smith,
fireman, and the ten-year-old son Of the en-
gineer, whose right arm was blown on at
the shoulder.
DAVID WEEBIN, retail dry goods dealer.
and E. LEVEL Il Sons, wholesale hardware,
of Savannah, Ca, lost their establishments
by fire recently. Loss, SIPS, 600; insurance,
So, 600.
WHILE Samuel G. Reed, q deserter from
the army, was being led from the guard
house at San Antonio, Tex, recently to
undergo trial by court martial, he broke
away from the guards and fed. The
guards sent volley after him and he fell
MORALLY wounded. He is believed to have
committed half a dozen murders. A few
years ago he and another deserter killed q
rich Jew named Block at Matamoras and
secured $4,000. He comes Of q good family
in Montgomery, Ala.
JOSEPH BARBER, one Of the alleged Texas
train robbers, has proved q clear alibi He
claims that he was offered 81, 600 to confess
that he was one of the band.
AT the convention of the Episcopal do
cese Of Easton, held at Chestertown, Nd,
on the 1st Rev. II. s. Lindsay, Of st.
Johns Church, Georgetown, D. c., was
elected Bishop to succeed the late Bishop
Lay.
A RAIN and wind storm passed over
Wheeling, w. Va, on the LIST, doing much
damage to property. During the storm q
boat containing three passengers capsized
near the middle of the river, the occupants
being swept out Of sight almost immedi-
ately.
A SPECIAL from Coffeeville, Miss, of the
1st says: "Air Mount, town nine miles
on of mis- wi cd yncfn hx,
q terrible hail storm. The crops were
completely destroyed. Many farmers are
ruined"
Two freight trains collided the other
morning forty miles south of Calera, Ala,
on the Louisville & Nashville railway. En-
gineer Howard Rowe and Fireman Burton
(colored) were killed outright, as was also
negro tramp, while another tramp was
fatally injured. Both trains were badly
wrecked.
RAILWAY men who have made the entire
trip report that twenty-seven large iron and
wooden bridges have been washed away
IN the floods of the past week between San
Antonio, Tex, and San Francisco.
AT Paducah, KY, recently, Mollie Jack
son, white woman, was ordered sold for
thirty days to the highest bidder on the
ground Of vagrancy.
The number of cases of yellow fever at
Key West, Fla, up to June was thirteen,
of which number four resulted fatally. Six
were sick and three convalescent.
GENERAL
A TELEGRAM from Genoa, Italy, reports
that Canon Vallega has been murdered in
the Capuchin Church at Alassio and the
church plundered by assassins.
FIVE thousand Chinese left Hong Kong
for America during March and April, fear
ing the new treaty would deprive them of
some of their privileges.
A MILITARY fetc was held at the Grand
Opera House, Paris, on the night Of the
3lst. An immense crowd assembled out
side shouting for Boulanger and for the
resignation of the ministry. Considerable
turbulence and some rioting was INDUCED
In before quiet was restored.
THE central crater Of Mount Etna, Sic
lily, began an eruption on the morning Of
the 31st- The flow was reported increas-
ing in volume. Heavy clouds of smoke,
masses Of stone and cinders issued from
the crater.
TWELVE hundred coal miners at Bachmut,
Russia, who were out on q strike, recently
| attempted to rob the brewery owned by q
firm of Englishmen. Fifty English work
men attached to the brewery mounted
horses and resisted the attack Of the strik-
ers. During the fight which occurred three
of the workmen were killed. Many Of the
strikers, who are all Russians, were ar
rested. The conflict was ended before mill
| tary aid arrived.
The Minister Of Colonies has announced
| in the Spanish Cortes that the Government
had decided to largely increase the import
de- -<<>l sok
like the United States, had no commercial
treaty with Spain. 1t was thought that
this policy would lead to agitation in Cuba.
Two officials in the presidents Office at
Strasburg have been arrested for treason.
Another official committed suicide before
he was arrested.
The grain porters at Avonmouth docks,
Bristol, Eng, who struck against the use
Of elevators in unloading vessels, have
gone back to work, the employers having
promised to use the elevators only when
they were insufiiciently supplied with man.
ual labor.
VICAR WARREN. of Trinity Church, Lon
don, has accepted conditionally the call
extended to him by Trinity Church, New
York.
WHILE the quadrille was being performed
in the Wild West Show at London the
other day, the horse Of Buck Tayler, the
noted cowboy, bolted and crushed him
against the cantle of another horses sad
die. Taylor fell to the ground and sus-
tanned q compound fracture Of the thigh,
and was removed to St Georges Hospital.
ADIsPATCH from Wellington says: 1.-THE
Parliament Of New Zealand has been dis
solved, in consequence Of the defeat of the
budget presented by Sir julius Hogan,
Colonial Treasurer"
An arrangement has been concluded with
France for uniform custom duties in Ger
man and French possessions on the Afri-